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No. 524,465. Patented Aug. 14, 1894.

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W. A. HANCE.

DOOR HANGER.

No. 524,465, Patented Aug. 14, 1894.

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UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEicE.

AWILLIAM A. HANCE, OF FREEPORT, ILLINOIS.`

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 524,465, dated August14, 1894.

Application filed February 6, 1894. Serial No. 499.299. (No model.)

],Be it known that I, WILLIAM A. HANCE, a citizen of the United States,residingat Freeport` 1n. the county of Stevenson and State of Illinois,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Door-Hangers, of which thefollowing is a specification;

My invention relates to an improvement in door-hangers of the classemployed on slid- L ing doors for suspending them through the medium ofrollers on overhead tracks, and in which the connection between thehangerroller, for riding on the overhead track, and thebase-portion, atwhich the hanger-device 1s fastened to the upper end of the door,involves pivotallyconnected bars provided with adJusting means adaptedto distend or' contractthe bars for lowering and raising the door 1n amanner to maintain its parallelism.

The obgect of myimprovement is to provide an especially simple, durableand cheap construction of door-hanger in the foregoing class.

Referring to the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a broken view of asliding door suspended from an overhead track by a pair of my improvedhangers. Fig. 2 is a section taken at the line 2 on Fig. 1 and viewed inthe direction of the arrow. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the separablehanger-base. Fig. 4 is alsection taken at the line 4 on Fig. 3 andviewed in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 5 1s `a broken view inelevation showing the end of the hanger provided with the preferred formof my improved catch for locking together the separable parts. Fig. 6 isa section taken at the line 6 on Fig. l and viewed in the direction ofthe arrow. Fig. 7 shows, by a View enlarged over the scale observed inFig. 1, the hanger, in side elevation, separate from the door.

A is the hanger comprising a triangular body-portion having flexiblyjointed sides formed with a horizontal base-bar r having pivoted to oneof its ends a bar Q bent upon itself toward its outer end to affordbearings i for a wheel B; and with the base-bar, at a point between itsends, is pivotally connected, at one end, a bar p having, at itsopposite enda nut-liange o to receive a set-screw 0 supported to work ina bearing n on the ady jacent end of the bar r. Thus, as willbe seen,the flexibly jointed sections afforded by the pivotally jointed bars fr,q and p, form a triangular-body portion carrying the supporting wheel Bnear its apex, which always occupies the same position with relation tothe wheelaXis though it may be shifted from one position to another byturning the screw 0 in one direction to shorten the distance between theapex and base-bar o", or in the opposite direc.- tiou to lengthen thatdistance.

As shown, the under side of the base-bar r is anged to adapt it to beinserted endwise and lit and be confined in a longitudinal groove m in abase C, provided at intervals with holes m in which to insert andcountersink screws for fastening the base rigidly or permanently to theupper edge of a sliding door B, and when the upper or body-portion ofthe hanger is so connected with the base, the two parts are preventedfrom separation by a catch l on the body-portion engaging a stop orshoulder Z on the adjacent end of the base. The preferred form of thecatch Z is that illustrated of a curved leaf-spring fastened at one endto an end of the bar r, as by the screw o,in position to extend into theplane of the stop l when the bar is slid into the base C, whereby itwill snap over the shoulder and abut against it"\to prevent thewithdrawal which, however, maybe accomplished readily on prizing up theend of the catch engaging the shoulder Z to cause it to clear thelatter. l

I provide two of my improved hangers for each door, one near each end ofits upper edge, as represented in Fig. l; and the wheels B rest on thesingle overhead track E, on which they travel in sliding the door, thetrack being either grooved longitudinally to guide in the groove thewheel beveled about its periphery, as shown, or the wheel beingperipherally grooved to roll on a track which fits in the groove.

To adjust the height of the door,the setscrew o of a hanger, or of eachhanger, ac-

cording to requirement, is turned to draw the bar q toward or force itfrom it, in the first instance raising the door by shortening thedistance between the apex of the body-por tion of the hanger and thebase-bar r, and

in the other inst-ance lowering the door by lengthening that distance;and, as will he understood, the weight of thevdoor on the hanger retainsthe pivotally jointed sections in the.

relative positions of their adjustment. `Moreover, it will be obviousthat the means provided for setting the height of the door necessarilymaintain the required horizontality of its base, inasmuch as the raisingor lowering eect of the screw Z on the base-bar o" is equal at both itsends.

The Wheel B isshown to have/a rollen-bearing connection with the ybar q,comprising cir cular grooves 7c in its opposite sides, (see Fig. 6)extending outward from the opening lc in its center, and in which areconfined the antifriction balls e', between the sides affording thebearings t and a sleeve h in the opening the bar q being extended into aWheel-bearing, a Wheel B journaled in the said bearing, a set-screw 0 onthe base-bar fr and Working vin a nut o on the adjacent bar, and a baseC on the said base-bar, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.f

WILLIAM A. HANCE.

In presence of#n M. LFRosT,

-W. U. WILLIAMS.

